[csw-maintainers] Standard for package naming

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Mon Dec 8 16:46:00 CET 2008


Hi Phil,

Am 05.12.2008 um 15:10 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 08:01:28AM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> Personally I like *-devel, *-rt, *_devel and *_rt,
>
> i agree

Could you please add this to the standards page?

>> don't care what is chosen, but whatever we choose the package
>> names should be adjust and bugs should be filed for renaming.
>
> I would disagree here. renaming packages (at least the CSWxxx names)  
> is
> ugly, becuase of depandancies, and i would prefer they NOT be renamed.
> unless they havef zero dependancies.

We must clean up this mess at some time, even when intermediate
packages must be used in the meantime. We'll look at these one
at a time.


Best regards

   -- Dago



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